translated from Spanish: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: “I ask the president to honor the will of the Argentine people”

Since the results of the PASO were published, the ruling party entered an internal political crisis that included the presentation of resignation of half a cabinet. In the midst of this situation, the vice president published a letter where she remembers having declared about the “officials who did not work” and asks Alberto Fernández to “honor the will of the Argentine people.” I remember the act that took place in the Estadio Único de La Plata on December 18, 2020, in which many comrades of the Frente de Todos participated together with the President of the Nation, when I expressed verbatim: ‘… but beware, I do not want that growth – the economic growth of the year 2021 that the comrade who had preceded me in the use of the word correctly predicted – to be left alive by three or four nothing more. For this, it seems to me that we must align salaries and pensions, obviously, prices, especially those of food and tariffs’. On that occasion I also pointed out: “That is why I say to all those who are afraid or who do not dare, please … there are other occupations besides being a minister, minister, legislator or legislator. Go find another laburo, but we need people in the armchairs who occupy minister, minister, legislator or legislator … are to definitively defend the interests of the people,'” recalled the former president of the Nation.

On his meetings with the president during 2021, he clarified that he always marked that there was a “delicate social situation and that it translated, among other things, into salary arrears, price lack of control -especially in food and remedies- and lack of work, without ignoring, obviously, the impact of the two pandemics: the Macrista first and the sanitary”, a “wrong fiscal adjustment policy,” adding: “I always noted the lack of effectiveness in different areas of government.” 
“I have suffered a vice president who is avowedly opposed to our government. Let the Argentines sleep peacefully, that will never happen with me”

Because of this enumeration of problems in the country, CFK considered that “it was going to have electoral consequences”: “I didn’t say it once… I got tired of saying it… and not only the President of the Nation. The answer was always that it was not so, that she was wrong and that, according to the polls, we were going to win “very well” the elections. My answer, invariably, was ‘I don’t read surveys… I read economics and politics and I try to see reality.'” Regarding the results of the PASO, he insisted: “In the Province of Buenos Aires, an inexcusable thermometer of the social and economic temperature of our country, last Sunday we were abandoned 440,172 votes of those obtained by Citizen Unity in 2017.” When we lost the legislative elections in the Province of Buenos Aires in 2009, with Néstor as a candidate for National Deputy (…) on the Monday following the elections he not only renounced the ownership of the Justicialist Party, but I as President of the Nation asked for the resignation of who was my Chief of Staff, among others. And beware!… we had lost in the Province of Buenos Aires but we had won at the national level,” he said and made reference to what happened this week: “The day after such a political catastrophe, one listened to some officials and it seemed that nothing had happened in this country, pretending normality and, above all, bolting to the armchairs. Do you really believe that it is not necessary, after such a defeat, to publicly present the resignations and that the attitude of the officials to facilitate the President’s reorganization of his government is known?”
“I told him that it was necessary to relaunch his Government and I proposed names such as Governor Juan Manzur for the Chief of Staff”

After Alberto Fernández’s discussion in the bunker of the Frente de Todos, CFK met with him on Tuesday: “48 hours had passed without him communicating with me and it seemed prudent to call him and tell him that I had to talk to him. I let 48 hours pass to see if he called,” he detailed and continued, pointed against Santiago Cafiero: “I told him that it was necessary to relaunch his Government and I proposed names such as Governor Juan Manzur for the Chief of Staff.” I will not continue to tolerate the press operations that from the presidential environment itself, through its spokesman (Juan Pablo Biondi), are made about me and about our political space: Alberto Fernández wanted Dr. Eduardo De Pedro to be his Chief of Staff and I was the one who did not agree. Mal could now promote him to that position,” he said in his letter.

He took direct aim at Biondi, including him among the “officials who do not work”: “A voicePresidential ro to which no one knows the voice. Or does it have some other function that we do not know? To do operations in off for example? True mystery.”” I contacted the Minister of Economy when it was falsely spread that in the meeting I had with the President of the Nation, I had asked for his resignation. The operations are permanent and eventually only end up wearing down the government. It’s unbelievable that they don’t notice it. It’s a shame so much self-inflicted damage,” he said. I sincerely trust that with the same strength and conviction that he faced the pandemic, the President will not only relaunch his government, but will sit down with his Minister of Economy to look at the budget numbers,” said Cristina Kirchner. I know that governing is not easy, and Argentina even less so. I have even suffered a vice president who is avowedly opposed to our government. Argentines sleep peacefully… that’s never going to happen with me,” the vice president said after listing the economic problems she had during her presidencies.
“A presidential spokesman who nobody knows his voice. Or does it have some other function that we do not know? To do operations in off for example? True mystery”

Despite the fact that the main political problem is internal, in the end, she pointed against Mauricio Macri: “I am convinced that it will be impossible to solve the problems left by Macrismo of low wages, very high inflation, vertiginous indebtedness with private creditors and the return of the IMF with a loan of 44 billion dollars, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc… voting for Macrismo or voting for their ideas.” To close, he addressed the current president and reflected: “When I made the decision, and I do it in the first person of the singular because it was really like that, to propose Alberto Fernández as a candidate for President of all Argentines, I did it with the conviction that it was the best for my Homeland. I only ask the President to honour that decision… but above all, taking his words and convictions as well, which is more important than anything: that he honors the will of the Argentine people.”
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